Grant to Homeless Action Resource Project (360G-EssexCF-A546169)
Funding Organization
£15,000
Recipient Organization
to support homeless people in Southend during the COVID19 crisis
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 15000 |
| Amount Awarded | 15000 |
| Award Date | 2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E06000033 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | UA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Southend-on-Sea |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2019/20 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Essex Coronavirus Response and Recovery Programme |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Last Modified | 2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary beneficiary | Homeless people |
| Primary issue | Homelessness |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1098126 |
| Recipient Org: Description | HARP is the leading homeless charity in Southend. Our aim is to help prevent homelessness with early intervention as well as helping people overcome homelessness for good. Everything we do is geared towards helping people move away from homelessness permanently, enabling them to lead happy, independent and fulfilling lives within the community. We support over 1,200 people on average every year and as the amount of people affected by homelessness grows so does the demand for our services. At HARP, we are always looking at new ways to help people get off the streets - and stay off the streets. The number of bed spaces we are able to offer has grown, as part of HARP’s response to the growing need in the town, from 174 in mid-2018 to 214 today, plus additional sleeping spaces in our Extended Emergency Service - an overnight shelter at our Bradbury Centre for those in immediate need. we have always emphasised that rough sleeping is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of overall levels of homelessness. Although this is the most visible and dangerous aspect, there are countless more people in precarious accommodation, sofa-surfing, or staying in temporary housing who need ongoing support to avoid and overcome homelessness. And new people are finding themselves in these precarious and often dangerous circumstances every day.Nearly half of the people who came to HARP for help in 2019 were using our services for the first time, and over half of those new visitors were sofa surfing, had no fixed abode, or were at risk of losing their accommodation and were in need of help and support to keep it. This only goes to show how many local people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and are in danger of ending up on the streets. We desperately need more social housing and affordable accommodation (and this means properties to rent, not just “affordable housing” for people fortunate enough to be able to purchase), as well as better support for people struggling with their financial and housing situations, and a genuine effort to tackle the root causes of homelessness. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.harpsouthend.org.uk |